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Here are some lectures, seminars and talks that may be of interest. The links reach further information on each presentation.

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15-10-2024 16:00:00

Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits

Series: Foster Talks
Speaker: Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology builiding, Downing Site CB2 3EG

17-10-2024 11:00:00

Simple and multiple linear regression

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

17-10-2024 14:00:00

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Adrian Horner (U. of York)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

17-10-2024 16:00:00

Building synapses in the hippocampus

Series: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker: Prof Laura Andreae, King's College
Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site

18-10-2024 13:00:00

Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

18-10-2024 16:00:00

Not too big and not too small – Bicycle peptides for precision targeted therapies

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Liuhong Chen, Bicycle Therapeutics
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

18-10-2024 16:30:00

Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

21-10-2024 12:30:00

Laminar 7T fMRI to investigate communication between the hippocampus and neocortex

Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting
Speaker: Oliver Warrington (UCL)
Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge

21-10-2024 16:15:00

Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

24-10-2024 11:00:00

The General Linear Model and complex designs including Analysis of Covariance

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

24-10-2024 14:00:00

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

25-10-2024 16:30:00

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

28-10-2024 16:15:00

Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

30-10-2024 13:00:00

Cellular and circuit mechanisms of cortical function in humans and rats

Series: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars
Speaker: Dr Sam Booker, University of Edinburgh
Venue: Brian Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site

31-10-2024 11:00:00

Categorical Data Analysis

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

31-10-2024 14:00:00

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Tim Denison (U. of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

01-11-2024 16:00:00

Computational Microbiology of the E. coli cell envelope

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

01-11-2024 16:30:00

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Prof Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

07-11-2024 11:00:00

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

07-11-2024 14:00:00

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Dr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

08-11-2024 16:00:00

Harnessing the principles of cellular resilience for therapeutics

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology, University of Cambridge
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

08-11-2024 16:30:00

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

14-11-2024 11:00:00

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

14-11-2024 14:00:00

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

15-11-2024 13:00:00

Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Clare Buckley - University of Manchester
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

15-11-2024 16:00:00

Delaying and Measuring ageing

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Ivana Bjedov, University College London Cancer Institute
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

18-11-2024 16:15:00

Towards understanding adaptive intelligence

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room

21-11-2024 11:00:00

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

21-11-2024 14:00:00

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Avital Hahamy (University College London)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

22-11-2024 13:00:00

Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

22-11-2024 16:00:00

Redirecting innate immune mechanisms against aggregated proteins

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr William McEwan, University of Cambridge UK Dementia Research Institute
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

22-11-2024 16:30:00

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

28-11-2024 11:00:00

Power analysis

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

28-11-2024 14:00:00

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

29-11-2024 13:00:00

Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta 

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Norah Fogarty - King's College London
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

29-11-2024 16:00:00

Postdoctoral Researcher Talks

Series: Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Javier Aguilera Lizarraga, Dr Anwit Pandit
Venue: Seminar Room (Level 2), Dept of Pharmacology

05-12-2024 11:00:00

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Series: Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Speaker: Peter Watson
Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road

05-12-2024 14:00:00

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

Series: Chaucer Club
Speaker: Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre

06-12-2024 13:00:00

How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question

Series: Developmental Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Venue: Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link

06-12-2024 16:30:00

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

16-12-2024 18:30:00

Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution

Series: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
Speaker: Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Venue: Old Divinity School, St. Johns College

31-01-2025 16:30:00

Episodic cognition in cephalopod molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie.
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

14-02-2025 16:30:00

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Mirjana Boznik

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

21-02-2025 16:30:00

Autonomy as an engine for wellbeing, engagement and student performance: A gamification approach.

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Nathan J. Emery PhD FHEA, Dept of Biological & Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

07-03-2025 16:30:00

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology

23-05-2025 16:30:00

To be confirmed

The host foor this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Series: Zangwill Club
Speaker: Professor Ron Mangum, University of California Davis, USA
Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology